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C. E. MGC BEDS UNITED STATES VPATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. MCOLINTOOK, OF OZARK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HYMENUS G. SADLER AN D RALPH A. SADLER, OF PARIS, ARKANSAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,013, dated July 19, 1892.

Application filed March 3 1892. Serial No,l 423,614. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern,.- ally. In order to enable the bed to support Be it known that I, CHARLES E. MOOLIN- without liability of breaking or straining the TOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing parts heavy persons or two or more persons, at Ozark, in the county of Franklin and State a series of springs 7 is provided at each end 5 of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful of the Slat-supporting bar and are connected 55 Bedstead,of which the following is aspeciflcawith one another by hook-links 8. Each of tion. the said hook-links is provided at one end The invention relates to improvements in with a loop, which engages a hookedparm 6, bedsteads. and at the other end with a hook to engage a :o The object of the present invention is to loop of another hook-link. The hook-links 6o provide spring-supports for holding the slats connecting the upper springs of the series and to enable the strength of the springs to may be readily detached to regulate the be readily adjusted to suit the weight of a strength of the spring-support to the person person. or persons using the bed. The block 11, which r 5 The invention consists in the construction is provided with recesses or seats l0 for the 6: and novel combination and arrangement of coils of the springs, is secured to the head or parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated foot board and affords convenient means for in the accompanying drawings, and pointed attaching a rail-lock to a head or foot board. out in the claims hereto appended. The improvements herein shown and de- 2o In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective scribed are applicable to all kinds of bed- 7o View of a portion of abedstead provided with steads, as will be readily understood, and I my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal desire it also to be understood that I do not sectional view. limit myself to the precise details of construc- Like numerals of reference indicate corretion herein shown and described, as I may, 25 spondiug parts in both the gures. without departing from the spirit of the in- 75 1 designates a Slat-supporting bar, which is vention, make minor changes therein.

connected with head and foot boards and VVhatI claim iswhich is arranged adjacent to a side rail 2 l. The combination, with a bcdstead, of a and which is trussed by a metal strap 3. The Slat-supporting bar provided at its ends with metal strap 3 is arranged on the lower face hinged loops, and the series of springs ar- 8o of the slat-supporting bar l and is provided ranged at the ends of the bedstead and havat its ends-with loops 4 and is secured at its ing right and left hand coils, and a centrallyends to the bar l and is cushioned intermearranged hooked upwardly-extending arm diate its ends by a spring-strut 5, consisting detachably engaging the loops, substantially 35 of a spiral spring, only one being shown in as described. S5 the drawings; but more may be added, if 2. The combination, with a bedstead, of a found necessary or desirable. The spring Slat-supporting bar provided at its ends with and the truss-strap 3 causes the slat-supportloops, a series of supporting-springs arranged ing bar to be sufiiciently resilient throughout at each end of the bedstead and each spring 4o its length to enable the slats to yield slightly havinga centrally-arranged hooked arm, and 9o io form a yielding support for the bed. coils arranged on opposite sides of the arm,

The loops 4 are each connected with a and the detachable link-hooks connecting hooked arm 6 of a supporting-spring 7. The the arms of the springs, the lower spring havsupporting-spring 7 is arranged around acying its arm engaging the adjacent loop of 45 lindrical core or block 9 and is secured in rethe Slat-supporting bar, substantially as de- 95 cesses or seats l0 of a block l1 and is proscribed. vided with right and left hand coils arranged 3. The combination of a bedstead provided on opposite sides of the arm 6, whereby the with blocks l1, the supporting-springs sedraft on the arm will be at the center of the cured to the blocks and each provided with a 5o spring to prevent the latter shifting latercentrally-arranged hooked arm and with coils loo arranged on opposite sidesof the arm, the hook-links connecting the arms of the springs and provided at one end with a loop and at the other end with a hook, the cylindrical cores arranged Within the coils, the Slat-su pporting bar, the truss-strap secured to the lower face of the bar and provided atits ends with loops engaging the arms of the lowermost springs, and an elastic spring-strut interposed between the strap and the slat-supxo porting bar, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflxed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES E. MCCLINTOCK.

Witnesses:

T. C. MOORE, H. G. SADLER. 

